SYNGENESIA— POLYGAMIA-^QU. Cnicus. 391 



Acanthium montanum. Ibid. 1446. /j woi'se. 



Jacea lutea Clusii. Ibid.\474.f; good. Name erroneous. 



Fryar's Thistle. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 2 1 ./. 8. 



In waste mountainous ground, and by road sides, on a limestone or 

 chalky soil. 



In the counties of Worcester, Huntingdon and Cornwall. With. 

 In a gravel pit at North Pickenham, Norfolk. Rev. Mr. Watts. 

 Oxfordshire. Sibth. Cambridgeshire. Relh. Common in Bed- 

 fordshire. Abbot. In Hampshire. Mr. Rayer. Between Stam- 

 ford and Grantham plentifully j also about the zigzag walk 

 at Matlock bath. 



Biennial. August. 



A large and conspicuous plant, not easily overlooked. Root tap- 

 shaped. Stem 3 feet high, with numerous wide-spreading 

 branches, leafy, round, strongly furrowed, slightly hairy, full of 

 pith. Leaves sessile, not decurrent ; covered with close bris- 

 tles on the upper side, and with cottony down at the back ; their 

 lobes each tipped with a strong spine, and spreading alternately 

 in two directions, afford a singular and striking character. Fl. 

 numerous, very large, purple, solitary at the end of each branch, 

 with a smaller leaf or two close underneath. Cat. often about 

 3 inches in diameter, globose, or rather depressed, the purplish 

 tips of its scales projecting out of the mass of cottony wool, 

 which envelopes the whole calyx like a dense cobweb. Seeds 

 obovate, polished, with a feathery down. The radical leaves 

 are frequently 2 feet in length, and their lobes are disposed in 

 double ranks with singular exactness. Fl. occasionally white, 



6. C. tuberosus. Tuberous Plume-thistle. 



Leaves deeply pinnatifid, lobed, fringed with prickles ; 

 lower ones on long stalks. Stem almost single-flowei'- 

 ed, without wings or prickles. Calyx-scales minutely 

 spinous, nearly smooth. Root creeping, tuberous. 



C. tuberosus. Willd. Sp. Fl. v. 3. 1680. Coinp. ed. 4. 134. Engl. 



Bot. v. 36. t. 2562 j omitting the reference to Gerarde. 

 Carduus tuberosus. Linn. Sp. PI. 1 154. 

 C. bulbosus monspelliensium. Lob. Advcrs. 371 ./. Ic. v. 2. 10./. 



Bauh.Hist.v.3. p. I. 43./. 

 C. pratensis asphodeli radice, latifolius. Bauh. Pin. 377. 

 Cirsium n. 1 77^ Hall. Hist. v. 1.76. 

 C. latioribus foliis viridibus laciniatis, radicibus asphodeli. Moris. 



v.3,lbl.sect.7. t.29.f.27. 

 Cirsio quinto congener. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 149./. 

 Acanthus sylvestris alter. Dalech. Hist. 1444./. 



In thickets on the downs of Wiltshire. 



In a truly wild thicket of brush-wood, called Great Ridge, on the 



